Galway in Days Gone By
Galway In Days Gone By
1918
Exciting Claddagh scene
The Claddagh on Friday week, was the scene of an exciting encounter between Dominick-street Police and a resident named Thomas Tynan, who is about 35 years of age. On that morning, he was noticed outside his house wearing pants only and brandishing a German sword which his brother brought back from France, in a defiant manner.
He appeared very excited and his demeanour created considerable alarm among the inhabitants. Sergt. McGlynn and Constable Donegan visited the scene and proceeded to arrest Tynan.
He immediately attempted to rush for the sword. The police dashed upon him and a terrific encounter ensued between them. A large dog, the property of Tynan, joined in the ray and violently attacked the police.
Sergt. McGlynn succeeded in temporarily stunning the animal with a blow from his stick which got broken. Other police came to the sergeant and constable’s aid and eventually overpowered Tynan and conveyed him to Dominick-street Barracks.
He was charged before Messrs. Conor Berne and J.M. Campbell, J.P.s on that day and committed as a dangerous lunatic to Ballinasloe Asylum.
1943
Galway-Clifden railway
Mr. Gerald Bartley, T.D., has denied that the Government was responsible for the closing down of the Galway-Clifden railway, and said that the road service served districts in Connemara miles from the old railway line much better than it had done.
More land division
Three Connacht Deputies in the Dáil declared that land re-settlement, so far as the West is concerned, is as pressing as ever. They urged that the officers of the Land Commission who had been loaned to the Department of Agriculture, should be taken back in order to deal with it.
The Western Deputies were Messrs. Beegan, Bartley and Killilea. The last-named Deputy, whose speech was criticised by Mr. James Dillon, urged that the Land Commission should step in and fix a price for any holdings of from 60 acres upwards in the congested areas which were offered for sale.
City art gallery
The establishment of a permanent Municipal Art Gallery in Galway may not be feasible for some years, but a first step in that direction was taken at a public meeting in the Borough Council Offices on Monday when a provisional committee was appointed to make preliminary arrangements.
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Dramatic turn
Liam Mellowes 2-2 Army 0-7. A whirlwind finish that won a goal five seconds before the final whistle was sounded, gave Liam Mellowes a point victory over the Army in the first round of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship at Galway Sports Ground on Sunday. It was a dramatic ending to a game of grand hurling in which the Army fifteen led practically all the way.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
1923
Gloom after war
The special correspondent of the “Independent”, who has been writing of the aftermath of civil war in the West, notes that a feeling of apathy, due to the uncertainty of events, exists amongst the sorely-tried people of Connemara; that politics are referred to only with disgust and that not more than fifty per cent. of the people would vote at a general election; that poverty and unemployment are rife, and there is a growing tendency towards emigration; and that there are bitter complaints of the huge impost of rates and taxes.
It is only too true that there is enough of material for the pessimist to brood over, and that a feeling of gloom permeates country towns. But it is a poor tribute to patriotism that has survived such horrors to encourage this gloom.
It is the duty of all of us to get this pessimism out of the national body and to rid ourselves of the notion that we have not enough Christianity and moral sense left to restore our people to cheerful and ordered progress and industry.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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1923
Peace negotiations
As we go to press, An Dáil is discussing the Peace negotiations between the Government and Mr. de Valera. It was announced on Wednesday for the first time that such negotiations were begun following Mr. de Valera’s “cease fire” proclamation of April 27, and that by the 30th of the month Senators Andrew Jameson and James Douglas were asked by him to discuss proposals.
They said it was for the Government to discuss; they could only confer. Into the ensuring conferences the Government declined to enter personally, but on May 3 the senators placed before Mr. de Valera the Cabinet’s terms, which were that future issues should be decided by the majority vote of the elected representatives of the people, and that as a corollary and a preliminary to the release of prisoners, all lethal weapons should be in the custody and control of the Executive Government.
Mr. de Valera relied to this on May 7 with a document in which he agreed to majority rule and control of arms, but added that arms should be stored in a suitable building in each province under armed Republican guard until after the elections in September, that the oath should not be made a test in the councils of the nation, and that all political prisoners should be released immediately on the signing of this agreement.
“You have brought back to us,” wrote President Cosgrave, “not an acceptance of our conditions, but a long and wordy document inviting debate where none is possible”.
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1923
State of the parties
Speculation as to parties after the next Irish elections is exceedingly interesting, especially in view of the enlarged franchise.
In Dublin, the view appears to be held by a number of people that Labour will make a great bid for power.
Dublin, however, has a curiously insular habit of thought where matters that concern all Ireland and in which Ireland has a say are concerned. We hope this insularity will rapidly disappear under the new conditions.
The country as a whole is backing the Farmers’ Party, and has not the smallest doubt that it will be the strongest combination in the next Dáil, and that it will oust the purely political parties, the one because it has resorted to force, the other because it has been compelled to use force to supress force, and the Labour Party because Ireland feels that at the back of its policy lurks the danger of Communism.
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